Tech Week In Review 2001.07.23 - 2001.07.29 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: US Senator wants to stop Win XP launch. Amazon.com on track to profitability? Compaq's profits down.. Motorola is selling it's 3G technology. SirCam virus hogs Internet with spam. Hotmail filed to block SirCam. Online music market to be worth $6 billion by 2006? Internet book publishing re-considered.. Adobe retreats after public pressure. The band that started the attack on Napster, Metallica, claims it supports music sharing on the net?! SGI to get rid of 25% of it's staff. HP to get rid of 6000 staff? CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: PACT claims 50.000 MIPS performance on a 100MHz chip using radically different design. AMD launches HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Intel's server roadmap. 2GHz Xoen from Intel within a month. Intel to launch Mobile "Tualatins" on monday. AMD aims at 1.3 GHz for it's mobile Athlons. VIA has apparently started shipping it's P4 chipset to mobo makers. Palm chooses ARM and signs both Intel and Motorola for future CPUs. Leaked details on SiS's Pentium 4 DDR chipset. No more P4-RDRAM bundles from Intel. VIA to launch a Tualatin pin compatible CPU. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Microsoft releases part of WinCE 3.0 source code. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: The first galaxy without a massive black hole or is it just the smallest yet?